Jerice Hunter's bond was set at $500,000 for charges of child abuse and the first-degree murder of her 5-year-old daughter, Jhessye Shockley.

The Maricopa County Superior Court sent over Hunter's paperwork this morning, and since Hunter was arrested on a grand jury warrant, there's not much information contained in it, and nothing related to Hunter's alleged crimes.

Hardly any information was given up at yesterday's press conference announcing the arrest and charges against Hunter, as Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said they're saving it for trial.

A little more than two months ago, Glendale police announced the search for Jhessye's body in a landfill ended without a trace of the girl.

Rick St. John, assistant police chief, said at the time that investigators know she's still in the landfill somewhere, which has 691 acres full of garbage in total.

He said there's "irrefutable evidence" she's there somewhere, although he declined to elaborate on what that evidence was.

Shockley was reported missing in October, and her mother, Jerice Hunter, was the prime suspect in her death since police announced their belief that Jhessye was murdered.

Hunter -- who's served prison time for child abuse before for abusing her other children -- had kept Jhessye locked in a closet for quite some time before her disappearance, police said.

According to court documents previously obtained by New Times, Jhessye's 13-year-old sister told her foster parents that several weeks before the little girl was reported missing, Hunter called Jhessye a "ho" and dragged her into a bedroom, where they heard Jhessye screaming and crying.

She did this, police say, because she came home and found Jhessye watching TV with a neighborhood boy.

Jhessye's sister also told police about Hunter keeping Jhessye locked in the closet, according to the documents, as she'd give her sister water and let her out of the closet when Hunter was gone.

Jhessye's sister added that she was missing patches of hair, and the closet she was locked in smelled like "dead people."

Jhessye's sister also said that two days before Hunter reported Jhessye missing, she bought a bottle of bleach and cleaned her entire apartment, and scrubbed her shoes that she kept in the same closet Jhessye was locked in.